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Measuring physical activity, sedentary behaviour and obesity through childhood

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Author	Routen, Ash
Copyright Year	2018
Description	The World Health Organisation purports childhood obesity to be one of the most serious public health challenges of the twenty-first century. Inextricably linked with the ever-growing discourse on childhood obesity in both the popular press and scientific literature is the issue of physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour (SB; sitting). To respond to this global health challenge, data on these aforementioned phenomena are required to ascertain population trends, relations with markers of health status and the success of prevention/treatment interventions. However, little research has examined the role of difference or othering in these data activities. Therefore, the first part of this chapter will present the notion of 'unintentional othering' as part of an inadvertent consequence of a national weight surveillance programme for children. The second part of this chapter focuses on the role of objective measurement methods to examine physical inactivity inequality within large datasets. Taken together these sections provide examples of how traditional public health research methods both create difference and therefore 'other' research participants, but can alternatively be employed to study difference. Book Name: Researching Difference in Sport and Physical Activity
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DOI	10.4324/9781315266749-8
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2018-07-11
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Researching Difference in Sport and Physical Activity Public Administration Children Childhood Obesity Othering Sedentary Public Health Physical Activity
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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